verbal debri

We live in an age of information...
technology
history
science
self help
medical miracles
metaphysics
Our minds are well aware of oh so much
and yet we walk around
so blissfully ignorant
or is it innocent?
We take the time to
click & send
point & shoot
blah blah blah
who really gives a hoot?
so, Oprah spends her loot
and saves a few
but are we ever really saved?
when we go on
day after day
making the same mistakes
over and over
repeating history (herstory?)
circular
perpendicular
perplexity
I am left mostly dumbfounded
and
numb bounded
I sit here knowing in my brain of all the many things I want to do...
to accomplish
to believe in
and support
and yet the vast majority of the time
I end up sitting here going
"what the fuk?"
system overload....
it's much to big to cope
I need another toke
Separate but equal
or so I've heard
we all want to top the rest
somehow measure up...
we need more stuff
iPod
laptop
high def big screen
but what is it all, but a mere distraction
keeping us from what?
are we better off comfortably numb?
or should our awareness seep into daily doings?
should we
RISE
and take a stand for things we truly believe?
or just go back to
making sure our 7 yr old daughters have blackberries
and skirts so short their panties show
high heels lip gloss
my four year old son - thinks he's grown
and here I am 28 years old and still a big 'ole baby
who might just maybe grow up one day
or do we ever?
time and time again
I see folks supposedly grown
acting like elementary
my dear - do we need to play these games?
my stuff's cooler than yours
you're not my friend anymore
I think I'll bomb your country
killing helps so much...
now the world's a better place huh?
more gravesites
less landfills
throw away your problems
and let them melt away into a heap
of recycled mush
and then go buy some more
so you can show off and feel better than the neighbor
that thy's 'sposed to be luvin
It's no wonder I can't sleep at night
when at times even the small joys I find in life seem to grow
insignificant
in the looming shadow of all the greed - evil - destruction
& senseless acts of anger - hurt
my heart weeps at times
and I try to find the beauty
hidden 'round every corner
in each dark ally
I grow curiouser and curioser
every day
just as Alice in her land of wonder
where will we all be
5 years from now?
5 days even...
and even more unfathomable
5 decades
centuries?
millions of years from now...
if on this path we stay
will there even be
a We?

and does it even matter....